Clothes-fastening device.



E. S. CRUMB.

CLOTHES FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY'ZB, 1913.

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@TATltld PATENT QFFIE EDWARD S. CRUD/KB, OF CHABLESTOWN, RHODE ISLAND.

CLOTHES-FASTENING DEVICE.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD S. CRUMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charlestown, in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Innarovements in Clothes- Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient clothes fastening device for use in securing clothes on clothes lines.

The invention embodies, among other features, a clothes fastening device which is preferably formed of a single piece of springlike wire fashioned to provide a means for gripping the clothes and the clothes line to not only support the clothes on the line but also to grip the clothes and bind the same so that the clothes cannot be easily torn or accidentally pulled off of the line by the wind.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had. to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1. is a perspective view of the clothes fastening device; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view, showing the manner in which the clothes fastening device is applied; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 33 in Fig. 2.

Referring more particularly to the views, I proviso a clothes fastening device 10 preferably formed of a single piece of springlike wire 11 bent to provide a loop 12, terminating in an end 13, the said piece of wire, after the loop is formed, being bent in a circle to form a loop 14L lying adjacent to the loop 12 and having the other end 15 of the wire then twisted around the first mentioned loop 12, as shown, the ends 13 and 15 being then bent slightly inwardly to form gripping members 16, the end 13 being passed over the loop 1 1- in order that the gripping members will lie on the same sides of the loops with which they are integral, the said gripping members being relatively parallel.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 22, 19 13.

Patented Feb. 24:, 1914:.

Serial No. 780,504.

In the application of my device to a clothes line 1'7 for the purpose of securing clothes 18 thereto, the clothes 18 are first placed over the clothes line 17 as shown, after which the clothes fastening device is applied to the clothes line and clothes so that the clothes line and clothes will be received between the loops 12 and 1st. As the clothes line is received between the loops it will be apparent that the clothes line will pass above the horizontal plane of the gripping members 16 so that the gripping members will have portions thereof lying beneath the clothes line, thus securely binding the clothes to the clothes line and also exerting a gripping action on the clothes to press the clothes against the loop 141: and securely hold the same on the clothes line.

With an article of the character described it will be apparent that the clothes will be securely held on the clothes line and will be prevented from being accidentally torn therefrom or pulled off of the clothes line by the wind. Furthermore, the device can be cheaply manufactured and sold at a small cost to the consumer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a clothes fastening device consisting of a single piece of spring-like wire bent to provide a circular loop and having one end of the piece of wire extending transversely thereto, the said piece of wire being then bent to form a second loop lying adjacent to the first mentioned loop, with the other end of the piece of wire extending transversely to the loops and in. parallel relation to the first mentioned end of the said wire, with the said ends of the wire constituting gripping members adapted to grip the clothes line when the same is received between the said loops.

in testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDXVARD S. CRUMB.

lVitnesses EUGENE B. PENLLn'roN, EDWARD G. CRANDALL.

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